Truchas de Batatas

Ingredients:

• 1 kg of yellow sweet potato 
• ¾ kg of sugar
• 100 g of bare almonds 
• 1 lemon peel 
• ground cinnamon
• 3 tsp of butter
• 1 cup of olive oil 
• ½ kg of flour

Procedure:

For the filling: Have the sweet potatoes boil in water and salt and when they are boiled enough crush them.

In an earthen bowl, mix the sweet potatoes with the almonds crushed, the sugar, the lemon peel and the cinnamon, until obtaining a thick paste. Keep aside.

For the puff pastry: make a mountain with the flour and in the center place the butter and the oil and knead until it is smooth. Let it rest.

Dust flour on the table and with a rolling pin make dough into pancakes of about 8 cm in diameter and place the mix we made earlier (as the filling) in the center. Fold carefully making sure the corners are well united with the help of a fork.

Fry in very hot oil, then dust off a bit of sugar glass (icing sugar) on top to give a special touch.

Ready to be eaten!

Thanks to Alejandro Diaz for this recipe.